08 Oct 1881
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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1881
Page
1
The Star City reports a looming cold snap as geese migrate south near the season. The Albany Ledger recounts N. T. De Pauw’s injuries on a Pennsylvania Railroad sleeper when a freight car timber overhung a passing train and crushed his left arm.
List of marriage licenses with names and spouses, plus obituaries for Omer J Allspaugh infant and Jesse Gifford infant in Madison and Greencastle townships. Short notice of a theatrical piece Our Goblins and a sale at a public stand offering lake and shell fish and oysters at the southeast corner of the public square.
Local readers share neighborhood news and notes from Tur Star correspondence. Items include social visits, church meetings, school updates, a new school bell, timber cutting trips, a fatality on the I D and 3S road, and recent lectures and recitations.
The report notes copious rain over Saturday and Sunday hindering farming work as farmers near finish sowing wheat. Allen Crawford travels to Emporia to work hay pressing. Cy Rough delivers a temperance lecture while rain interrupts again. Mel Haffie’s horse Frank Landers wins a trotting race in Indianapolis.
Rain and mud slow Groveland as blacksmiths John Lydick and Wm Worline relocate. Dodge shifts to New Winchester to hammer iron. Rudd moves his mill east of town. Evans weds Minnie Mills in Jackson township. Eddie Graham visits Kansas. sheriff invites several visitors amid I and S railroad chatter.
A playful verse notes Mary with her lamb, Columbus as explorer, and a boy on a burning deck, weaving a nostalgic collage of legendary moments and dramatic imagery. The item blends misheard phrases with iconic figures in a whimsical catalog.
The piece records residents visiting in Davie s county and shifts to a long anecdote about a faithless lover letter from 1876, a Chicago pork-packer, and a Belvidere murder plot. It notes Mrs Maxcy of Pace Bend Texas aged 111, and ends with a Georgia camp meeting fatal fall from a tree attempted flight.
In Ohio a man William Cumming, a widow Frances Kennedy, and the wedding at the bride's Erie home unfold amid secrecy and last minute scruples. Cumming interrupts as the minister arrives, the bride becomes Mrs Williams, and the scene ends with a disrupted reception and exit amid clamor.
A Chicago police captain confronts a jailed wife killer with a living statement and takes him to the hospital where the corpse is found. Other items note a new theatre with fashion boxes, animal rescue controversy, $20 million in overdue bonds, Priscilla Persley’s 101 years, and library findings on Old Testament restrictions.
The article extols watermelon as a remedy for summer ailments and a welcomed dietary staple. It notes Dr. Tanner’s first meal after a fast being watermelon and cites its growing popularity and markets while also covering wine production in Virginia and various historical snippets. It includes brief agricultural and market reports from Chicago and Indianapolis.
Latest market quotations for Greencastle markets with weekly corrections noted. Items include Wheat Flour Butter Eggs Chickens Young Chickens Turkeys plaster and live lime with various prices and units. Also a theatre note praising Our Goblins at Haverly's Theatre and an Opera House event.
A lively note from New York Eve's News says the musical extra vaganza Our Goblins charms audiences with bright melody and humor. The lively cast excels in vitality and wit, drawing large crowds at Haverly's Theatre until further notice.
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